Heidelberg Engineering Products
Advanced Laser Imaging for Eye DiagnosticsSince 1991, Heidelberg Engineering has set the pace for laser imaging and 3D analysis of the retina, starting with the Heidelberg Retina Tomograph (HRT) and its ability to analyze the optic nerve head and retinal nerve fiber layer. From that starting point, Heidelberg Engineering has introduced a steady stream of new and innovative retinal imaging modalities and image analysis software, culminating with the six mode Spectralis® HRA+OCT.
Heidelberg Engineering introduced the world’s first anterior segment OCT in 2001. From that modest beginning, Heidelberg Engineering quickly realized that great technological leaps could be made by combining technologies and creating new products that could do more than single technologies alone.
Spectralis® HRA+OCT
Tracking Laser Tomography
With the introduction of the Sprectralis® HRA+OCT we have created a new concept known as “tracking laser tomography”. The Spectralis® product family takes the best of our HRA confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope (which includes fluorescein angiography, ICG angiography, autofluorescence, infrared and red-free imaging) and combines it with the fastest available spectral domain OCT to enable TruTrack™ real time eye tracking and pristine, detailed cross sectional images using Heidelberg Noise Reduction technology.
Heidelberg Retina Tomograph - HRT
Confocal Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope
The HRT set the standard for analyzing 3D structural change to the retina, especially in examining the optic nerve head. This capability lead to outstanding predictive clinical results in the NEI’s Ocular Hypertension Treatment Study and the European Glaucoma Prevention Study (soon to be published).
Heidelberg Engineering now offers three different analysis modules tailored to evaluating structural changes for retinal edema, glaucoma and corneal layers.
SL-OCTTM
Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography
(Not for sale in the US)
The SL-OCTTM combines a Haag-Streit Slit Lamp with optical coherence tomography to give the clinician the best of stereo microscopy combined with cross sectional anterior segment imaging. In addition, an infrared light source enables angle examination in darkness and a color camera enables exterior photography.
Heidelberg Edge Perimeter - HEP
Flicker Defined Form
(Not for sale - Pre-launch announcement)
The HEP steps out of traditional standard automated perimetry by offering a new stimulus concept which more precisely targets the M-cell pathway. The magnocellular pathway is believed to be more sensitive to glaucomatous damage than the less selective white on white perimetry.
In addition, we built the HEP on our Eye Explorer operating system which enables us to link HEP perimetry data directly to HRT optic disc analysis information for a combined structure function analysis.